What should a person think if one fine day he meets a woman indistinguishable from his own wife, and a few days later he sees her arm in arm with a man who i...

A fascinating encyclopedia of English life, compiled by Russian journalist Andrei Ostalsky, who has been living and working in the UK for almost twenty years...

Oil smells not only of sulfur, but also of enormous money, power and secrecy. What if oil really runs out? The new book by the author of “The New History of ...

Secrets and paradoxes... These are not at all the words that come to mind when you think about such an ordinary thing as money. Yes, every child knows that m...

From the moment when a dark, oily liquid fountained out of the ground in Pennsylvania in August 1859, the life of mankind was turned upside down. The era of ...

A spy saga with cool plot twists? Love-psychological drama? Fantasy novel? Each of these definitions will fit “Syndrome L” by Andrei Ostalsky. But even all o...

This is the story of Romeo and Juliet during the Cold War, about two people whose love turned out to be more important than loyalty to warring “camps” and st...

The famous journalist, editor-in-chief of the BBC Russian Service Andrei Ostalsky writes about his life on the “fairytale island” of Madeira. Ostalsky's book...

Perhaps the most exciting thriller of “all times and peoples” is the history of money, a universal means of exchange between people, in a lively and sometime...